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Bradley J. Birzer

6 West Montgomery DOB: September 6, 1967

Hillsdale, Michigan 49242 E-mail: bbirzer@hillsdale.edu

Ph: (517) 437-4336 website: stormfields.

C.V. updated: April 2014

Professional Teaching Experience

Hillsdale College (August 1999- )

Department of History

Hillsdale, Michigan 49242

Titles: Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies; Professor of History

Courses taught: American Founding; Jacksonian America; Sectionalism and Civil War; Culture and Literature of the American Civil War; American West; Native American; Christian Humanism; Western Heritage; American Heritage; History and Myth; and Dystopian Literature

University of Texas-San Antonio Visiting Assistant Professor

6900 North Loop 1604 West (August 1998-May 1999)

San Antonio, Texas 78249-0652

Courses taught: American West, Native American, U.S. to Civil War, U.S. since Civil War

Education

Indiana University, Ph.D., January 1999

Bloomington, Indiana 47408

Major: United States History; Minor: Latin American History; Outside Major: American Studies

Major Professors: R. David Edmunds and Bernard Sheehan

Dissertation: “Entangling Empires, Fracturing Frontiers: Jean Baptiste Richardville and the Quest for Miami Autonomy, 1760-1841.”

University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1990

Major: European and United States History

Major Professor: Walter Nugent

Senior Honor’s Thesis: “In Pursuit of Identity: The Catholic Volga German Settlements of Western Kansas, 1876-1920.”

University of Innsbruck, Austria, 1987-1988

Two-semester student exchange program, sophomore year

Concentration: Central European Studies

Publications: Books

American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2010). Favorably reviewed in scholarly and popular periodicals, most prominently in Weekly Standard and First Things. Named “National Book of the Month” by the Knights of Columbus.

Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson (Wilmington, Del.: ISI/Christendom Books, 2007). Named the best book of 2008 by biographer Joseph Pearce; named a top 11 book of 2008 by the National Catholic Register.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003). Reviewed or featured favorably in Wall Street Journal, First Things, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and National Review Online. Interviewed for Mars Hill Audio, on over 20 radio programs, many of them national, and for several publications (New York Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Christianity Today Online, National Catholic Register) regarding Tolkien. The Houghton Mifflin/Tolkien Estate-sponsored, two-volume Tolkien Companion (December 2006) lists Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth as "particularly useful for an appreciation of Tolkien's life and works."

The American West (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002), co-authored with Larry Schweikart. Features my photography.

James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat and Other Political Writings (Chicago: Eagle Books, 2001), co-edited with John Willson.

Publications: Books in Progress

Russell Kirk: A Life (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming, 2014).

Literature Against Leviathan: Myth, Science Fiction, and Dystopia in the Twentieth Century (in progress).

Transcending Communism: Ronald Reagan and the Speech That Ended the Evil Empire (in progress).

Select Publications: Articles, Chapters, Review Essays, and Introductions

“Introduction,” to Russell Kirk, Prospects for Conservatives (1956; Imaginative Conservative Books, 2013), iii-xxiv.

“Seven Conservative Minds,” The American Conservative (November/December 2013), 32-36.

“Introduction,” to Christopher Dawson, The Movement of World Revolution (Catholic University of America Press, 2013), vii-xx.

“The Celtic Mind,” The American Conservative (April 2012): 34-37.

“Tolkien’s ‘Last Battle’: A Johannine Ragnarök,” in Paul E. Kerry, ed., The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings (Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2011), 259-282.

“More Than ‘Irritable Mental Gestures’: Russell Kirk’s Challenge to Liberalism, 1950-1960,” Humanitas (2008): 64-86.

“Jean Baptiste Richardville: the French Métis and Geo-Political Realities of the Western Great Lakes, 1812-1840,” in R. David Edmunds, ed., Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest (University of Illinois Press, 2008), 94-108.

“Russell Kirk: Knight-Errant Against the Ideologues,” Second Spring (2008): 50-59.

“Christianity Migrating South,” Crisis (May 2007): 54-56.

“Stephen Lawhead and the Conundrum of Celtic Catholicism,” Saint Austin Review (March 2007).

“The Redeemer Nation,” Crisis (September 2006): 54-56.

“Administrative Mobbing,” Crisis (June 2006), 51-53.

“Christopher Dawson: The Historian of the Twentieth Century,” Saint Austin Review (September/October 2005): 6-8.

“Renewing the West,” Crisis (September 2005): 47-48

“Face to Face: Interview with Annette Kirk,” Saint Austin Review (May/June 2005), 17-18.

“Conservative Gothic,” Crisis (February 2005): 52-54.

“Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon England,” Saint Austin Review (September/October 2004), 15-18.

“New Men and Women of Letters,” in Cynthia McNew, ed., More People’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien (Cold Springs Press: Cold Springs Harbor, New York, 2004).

“Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon World,” Saint Austin Review (September/October 2004).

“Finding the Human Person,” Crisis (September 2004), 53-54.

“American and/or Catholic,” American Conservative (March 1, 2004), 33-36.

Five-Part Debate regarding “Peter Jackson’s vision of Middle-earth,” , January 2004.

“The Man Behind the Myth: J.R.R. Tolkien,” Christian History (Summer 2003).

“Grace and Will in Tolkien’s Legendarium: An Augustinian Understanding,” Saint Austin Review (January-February 2003). A fuller version was published in Robert Lazu, ed., J.R.R. Tolkien: Faith and Imagination in the Genesis of Literary Work (Bucharest, Romania: Hartmann Publishing House, 2005).

Three-Part Debate regarding “Modernity, Christianity, and Tolkien” with Mark Eddy Smith, Christianity Today Online, December 18-20, 2002.

Interviewer, “Face to Face with Jeff Nelson,” Saint Austin Review (November 2002).

“‘The Only Just Literary Critic’: The Christian Gifts of J.R.R. Tolkien,” New Oxford Review (December 2001): 25-29.

“‘An appearance of lively industry about the place’: Choctaw Economic Success in Indian Territory, 1831-1861,” Continuity: A Journal of History 24 (Autumn 2001).

“French Imperial Remnants on the Middle Ground: The Strange Case of August de la Balme and Charles Beaubien,” Journal of the Illinois Historical Society 93 (Summer 2000): 135-54.

“Expanding Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship in the American Wests,” Western Historical Quarterly 30 (Spring 1999): 45-63.

Nominated for the 1999 Don D. Walker Prize for Best Article in Western American Studies

“The Private West: Voluntary Associations in the American Wests,” chapter in Michael Allen and Mary L. Hanneman, eds., Frontiers of Western History: Origins, Evolution, and the Future of Western History (Carmel, Ind.: Simon & Schuster, 1999; revised and reissued 2005).

“Silver, Discontent, and Conspiracy: The Ideology of the Western Republican Revolt, 1890-1901,” Pacific Historical Review 64 (May 1995): 243-65.

“Worshiping the ‘Strange God’: Fred T. Dubois and the Fight Against Repeal in 1893,” Idaho Yesterdays 38 (Winter 1995): 2-11.

Publications: Encyclopedia Entries

“Russell Kirk” and “Christopher Dawson,” Encyclopedia of Christian Liberty (forthcoming).

“Jean-Baptiste Richardville,” American National Biography (supplement, forthcoming).

8 separate entries, J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, ed. by Michael Drout (Oxford, ENG: Routledge, 2006).

“Clarence Manion” and “John Marshall,” American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2006).

“The Miami Indians of Chicago,” Encyclopedia of Chicago (Newberry: Chicago, 2005).

“North Dakota,” New Catholic Encyclopedia (Catholic U. of A. Press: Washington, D.C., 2002).

Honors

• Russell Amos Kirk Chair of American Studies, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI

• Taught week-long course, “Christian Humanism,” for faculty, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, June 2013

• Co-Founder, Senior Contributor, The Imaginative Conservative (website)

• Featured Author, with interview, Contemporary Authors v. 288 (2010).

• Board Member, Center for the American Republic, Houston, TX

• Board Member, Center for Cultural Renewal, Houston, TX

• Fellow/Scholar, McConnell Center for Public Policy, Louisville, KY

• Fellow/Scholar, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, DE

• Fellow/Scholar, Foundation for Economic Education, Atlanta, GA

• Fellow/Scholar, Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Mecosta, MI

• Fellow/Scholar, Center for Economic Personalism, Brazil

• Several works translated into Romanian and Portuguese

• Frequent guest on several radio shows (including the Mike Church Show)

• Voice provided for English rock album, “Man Left in Space,” by Cosmograf, 2013

Blogs

• The Imaginative Conservative, over 300 posts (ca. 1000 words each), Summer 2010-present. Co-founder and Senior Contributor.

• Progarchy (progressive rock and jazz). Co-founder and Senior Editor.

• CatholicVote

• Ignatius Insight

• Catholic World Report

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